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Originally Posted by Below Speed Limit
There is also a reason why BMW invested in a lot of R&D in their top of the line M5 & M6 for a brand new HPS, because they knew the EPS would be unacceptable for the type of people they try to sell this car to, at least not in their first initial "M" version. They didn't take the risk and did it the hard way. They chose EPS with M3 & M4 because the crowd driving those cars are more open to new technologies and it gives BMW time to make those new technologies ready for the next generation M cars.
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I am not sure about this paragraph. In general, the crowd that purchases M3s (and now M4s
) are more of the "purist"/"track junky" bunch compared to the M5 buyers. I would tend to believe that this M3/M4 crowd will be much more critical of how the steering feels vs the M5/M6 crowd.
IMO it is more a question of timing. Most likely the EPS was not at the technology readiness level that the ///M division wanted when the F1X M5/6 was developped.